YEZIDI MP IN BAGHDAD PARLIAMENT: "HELP MY PEOPLE!"

Yezidi Kurdish MP in the Baghdad Parliament, Fayyan Dahel, said on Tuesday that ISIS gangs in Sinjar have slaughtered Yezidis, calling on the parliament to take action.

The Iraqi Parliament, which assembled in order to elect a new Prime Minister, witnessed the anguish of Kurdish Yezidi deputy Fayyan Dahel.

Fayyan Dahel addressed the Speaker, saying: "we are being slaughtered in the Sinjar region. They are killing us crying 'la ilahe illallah'. 500 young men have been murdered. They are abducting our women to sell in the marketplace. They rape them and see them as spoils of war."

Fayyan Dahel said: "ISIS has killed 500 Yazidis and abducted 500 women as slave concubines in Sinjar." She said The enslaved women had been taken to some areas near the city of Tal Afar, which is also under ISIS control.

"In the last 48 hours 32,000 families have fled. They are in the mountains of Sinjar, surrounded and without food or water. She added that 500 women were being held in a sports hall.

Deputy Fayyan Dahel called on the Iraqi parliament to take action and intervene to prevent a disaster occurring.